Animal-feed device.



PATENTED DEC. 12, 1905.

G. W. RUSSELL.

ANIMAL FEED DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE a, 1905.

el, Inventor v Witnesses Attorn eys UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANIMAL-FEED DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1905.

Application filed June 3, 1905. Serial No. 268,644.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE WASHINGTON RUSSELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Worth, in the county of Tarrant and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Animal-Feed Device, of which the following is a specification.

1 This invention relates to devices for feeding animals, and has for its object to provide a simply-constructed device which may be readily extended when required or collapsed when not in use and which may be suspended from a fence, vehicle-wheel, or other structure, or

supported directly from the ground, or suspended from the head'of the animal, as required.

With these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, is illustrated the preferred form of embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation, it being understood that the invention is not necessarilylimited thereto, as various changes in the shape, proportions, and general assemblage of the parts may be resorted to without departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

In the drawings thus employed, Figure 1 is a perspective View of the improved device suspended from a fence. Fig. 2 is a similar view, partly in section, illustrating the manner of supporting the device directly from the ground.

The improved device comprises a receptacle for the feed and formed with an imperforate bottom 10, of wood or sheet metal, fabric sides 11, of canvas or similar-suitable material, and a wire frame 12, sewed into the upper rim of the fabric portion and with spaced loops 13 extending through the fabric, as shown. The receptacle will preferably be square, as shown, and with four of the loops, one at each corner of the frame. Movably connected, as by eyes 14 15, to one pair of the loops 13 are rods 16 17, the rods having intermediate coils 18 19 and terminate in means for engagement with a supporting medium, such as a fence (represented at 20) or with the ground, as represented at 21. Connected, respectively, at one end by eyes 22 23 to the coils 18 19 are brace-rods 2 1 25, the other ends of the brace-rods movably coupled, as by eyes 26 27, to the remaining pair of the loops 13. The terminals of the rods 16 17 may be in the form of hooks, as in Fig. 1, for bearing over a fence, wagon-wheel, or other structure or bent into stakes for thrusting into the ground, as in Fig. 2, as circumstances may require.

When not in use, the device may be collapsed into small space and carried beneath the seat of a vehicle or otherwise disposed.

Straps 28 29 may also be supplied, as in Fig. 1, for attaching over the animals head, and thereby suspending the device as an ordinary feed-bag.

The imperforate bottom is preferably of Wood and the fabric sides attached thereto by binding-strips 30 and nails or tacks 31; but the bottom 10 may be perforated, if required.

The fabric employed may be of any desired quality-such as canvas, jute, burlap, or the likeand the receptacle may be of any required size or capacity.

.The device is simple in construction, can be inexpensively manufactured, is light, strong,

and durable, and operates efficiently for the purposes described.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is- In an animal-feeding device, a receptacle formed with an imperforate bottom and fabric sides and with a wire frame bound into its upper edge, the wire frame having spaced loops projecting through the fabric, rods having eyes at one end movably engaging a pair of said loops and with intermediate coils and means at the other ends for engaging a supporting medium, and brace-rods having eyes at the ends for movably engaging said coils and another pair of said frame-coils.

In testimony thatI claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE WASHINGTON RUSSELL.

Witnesses:

W. H. PEOKHAM, G. W. PECKHAM. 

